Let us be in prayer for the apple of God’s eye, Israel
Early Tuesday morning, a Palestinian resident of eastern Jerusalem stabbed an Israeli man at a bus stop outside city hall in the coastal city of Ra’anana before being subdued by nearby civilians. An hour and a half later, another stabbing attack took place at a café in Ra’nana resulting in light wounds to three victims and serious wounds to one other, before bystanders were able to subdue the attacker. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, three Israelis were killed and several others wounded in two separate attacks including a vehicular ramming followed by a stabbing spree in the haredi neighborhood of Geula and a shooting attack on the number 78 bus in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. One of the shooters was killed in the incident and the other wounded. The morning’s attacks came a day after several other attacks in Jerusalem including one in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in which a Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli teenager while he was riding his bicycle. Read More